Gwen Guthrie

The Best Hollywood Hoaxes for April Fool’s Day

In honour of April Fool's Day, The Quietus collects the best Hollywood Hoaxes: from Joaquin's beard to Marilyn's letters; from the Hollywood makeup artists who made Bigfoot to Kubrick's moon landing; from electric shocks in the cinema to faux documentaries with Herzog; it's all here.

A Light Switch In The Dark: Black Metal From Iceland

Photographer Verði ljós of the group Wormlust talks us through his new book of photographs documenting the Icelandic black metal scene before guiding us through nine of his favourite cuts

LISTEN: Charlotte Church – Love

We premiere the closing track from new EP FOUR ahead of launch shows tonight and Friday

What Is It?: Crispin Hellion Glover Interviewed

Haakon Nelson interviews the iconoclastic writer, director and actor about art, movies, music and how to flourish outside of the corporate game (contains NSFW video clip)

20 Years On: Malcolm X Reassessed

Declan Tan turns the cinematic clock back two decades for another look at Spike Lee's epic portrait of an African-American icon

In Space No-One Can Hear You Think: Claire Denis’s High Life

Whatever you might be expecting from the latest film by Claire (Beau Travail, Trouble Every Day) Denis, High Life ain't it

Fringe Benefits: Hal Hartley’s Meanwhile And Web-Driven Return

Long Island's singular independent film auteur used Kickstarter to fund the distribution of his first feature in six years. Declan Tan finds out more

O. Russell And I’ll Scam To You: American Hustle Reviewed

David Katz lifts the lid on the Silver Linings Playbook director's latest life-affirmer

The World Leaks In – Upstairs Planet: Cleaners From Venus & The Universe of Martin Newell

Lo-fi approaches define Martin Newell's oeuvre, so it only seems natural that the cinematic relic honouring him should follow suit, finds Neil Fox

Women

Women

No Longer An Allegory Of War: A Personal Reflection On Images & Conflict

Photographs of the dead in places of conflict are becoming increasingly more common as mobile phones can capture and share in an instant. But what is it like to know someone in such an image? London writer and poet Chimène Suleyman remembers growing up knowing her grandfather only through a photo taken after his death in Cyprus

Anniversary Feature: Wings of Honneamise Remembered

30 years after it first screened, Hiroyuki Yamaga's Wings Of Honneamise remains just as ambitious and beguiling as ever. Dave Hamilton-Smith takes a look back at this flawed but significant anime classic